Ed Dale’s 30 day challenge is not anti spam.

Author: GuyMcLaren  |  Category: Internet

Ed Dale of the 30 day challenge will teach you to make a $. I liked the 30 day challenge because I learned a lot from Ed Dale. But here is the thing Ed Dale is always going on about Spam and not to do it. One of the first things he teaches you however is to build backlinks using spammy techniques. Yes he says you must add to the conversation but then suggests you use your keywords as a name when commenting on blogs.

This is wrong and is going to upset people. I like talking to people not key words. If you are trying to add to the conversation and are using keywords as a name, I will not add you as a commentor to my blog. In fact I may add your comment but I will remove the back links.

So you sign in as Cheap Car Insurance you get no airtime because sir, you are a spammer.

The second thing that Ed teaches people is to use Content from other peoples sites as bait on your own site. Thats right duplicate someone else’s content and link to their site as attribution. You see in the spammers mind this is not an unreasonable tactic. Steal and attribute. The sad thing is that people using full content RSS feeds to make it easier for their readers to read what they have written in the RSS readers are now finding their posts posted verbatim on many other sites by the splogging thieves.

What makes it even worse is that these splogging thieves do pingbacks getting the unwary to link back to the splog sites, giving these splog sites more backlinks improving their Google positioning. That means that these splog sites get seen as more important than the original articles because they have more backlinks.

Ed Dale is one of the architects of the training teaching these inconsiderate, illiterate, uncouth cockroaches these underhanded, slimy, bottom feeding techniques.

Guy McLaren is also an internet marketer who will not stoop to the depths plumbed by the Ed Dales of the world.

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7 Responses to “Ed Dale’s 30 day challenge is not anti spam.”

  1. Sarah Smythe Says:
    I would have loved to have backlinked your article to my pr 4 blog but it appears you would consider that spam. Shame that.
  2. GuyMcLaren Says:
    Sarah Smythe can obviously not read or is as stupid as they can be. If your PR4 blog is a splog then yes it is spam. As you are too dumb to tell the difference between a splog and a blog I am assuming you must be american or a spammer.
  3. Ed Dale (1 comments.) Says:
    Hi Guy,

    What I teach is not spam - I teach and expect people to deliver champagne content - If you don’t - a pox on your house

    I also teach people to be vibrant, active participants in their community.

    Painting and entire community as “inconsiderate, illiterate, uncouth cockroaches these underhanded, slimy, bottom feeders” I would suggest is a tad unfair.

    Thanks for allowing me to respond

    Ed

    Ed Dales last blog post..I WISH I WAS A GOOD ENOUGH HEADLINE WRITER SO I COULD BE SURE YOU WOULD WATCH THIS

  4. GuyMcLaren Says:
    Ed
    Are you suggesting that the tools you recommend to harvest content from other blogs is creating content?

    Are you suggesting that sites that use content from other sites is creating content?

    Are you suggesting that copied content with links to the original articles is fair use?

  5. Sarah Smythe Says:
    Tim Ferris quoted something from Forbes this morning about rudeness being the tool of a man who has no real power.

    I saw your comment and then went looking through your blog. Surely after making such statements you would not be using content from other places to drive conversation on your blog. Then I clicked on your archives and was surprised to see that just like the bloggers on the 30DC you too seek inspiration from, and comment on other people’s content

    example
    http://guymclaren.com/2008/08/

    I can and do imagine that the majority of good people in the 30DC follow Ed’s teaching which is CREATE GOOD CONTENT. That can be commenting on other’s work, embedding videos on the subject that other people have made as adjuncts to your own content and generally being good members of the blogsphere.

    To call someone out for promoting good blogging practice is more a reflection on your desire for publicity I feel than any real gripe.

    Read Darren Rowse’s Blogging for Beginners tips for content creation and you will find that the foremost authority on the whole blogging subject will distinguish between “unique” content and “original” content….something I am charitably thinking you may have mixed up

    http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/02/18/writing-good-content/

    I hope you learn a little more on the subject of blogging, manners and trying to take out one of the “good guys” on the internet

  6. GuyMcLaren Says:
    Sarah,
    Thank you for noticing that I take inspiration from other bloggers. I don’t rip off their content and not add to the conversation. Thats called blogging. I add to the discussion. If you look through my blog you will find that I don’t abuse other bloggers and their hard work.

    You seem to have mistaken my ire at sploggers for ire at bloggers. Sploggers take content and add nothing to it. Bloggers will take inspiration from anothers blog and create something that adds to the conversation.

    Your second comment here is a good example of adding to the conversation, Your first was lashing out at an article that you failed to comprehend.

    I have asked Ed Dale to clarify his position with regards the use of the splogging software he recommends in Day 23 of the 30 day challenge in another article.

    If the concept is to use the article to find sources of good information and then use that information to add to the conversation, I personally would have no issue with it. But as suggested in Day 23 this is an easy way to add content by the bucket load then it is really a case of not adding to the conversation but stealing others hard work. I am against lazy people out for a quick buck.

    By the way next time you comment leave a link to your blog as i would like to visit it and see what value you have added. In fact if the blog is as good as I surmise it may be You may even find me adding real value by discussing what you are offering.

    My critique at Ed Dale is not personal. I think its something that needs saying with the proliferation of thieving bastards not adding value. This conversation is continued at http://guymclaren.com/ed-dale-30-day-challenge-response/

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